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The Empirical Lens and Covid

The Victor Davis Hanson Show

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Did the Romans Add Anything?

The romans were very confident people who were not at all bothered when they found cultures that had more advanced particular fields of inquiry or science. And then they just lock stock and barreld, absorbed them and tried to improve them. The greeks new, absolutely a Galen's medical a treatises are more sophisticated than hypocratic corpus. But if you look at colomela, or the elder cato, or the whole corpus of latinverogronomy, it's so sophisticated about how to farm trees and vines. Mean, it's not much different an 18 90 before the industrially revolution,. It's likevre industrial revolution, about as sophisticated you could get

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